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rockfenris2005 05:03 am UTC 01/02/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Dead Ringer - steven_stuart 10:26 pm UTC 01/01/10 |
Really? I was only ever aware of Jim having problems with Meat's vocals around the time of "Bad for Good" and "Dead Ringer". Listen to "Dead Ringer" and Meat sounds dodgy. The sad thing is, he sounds great on "Midnight at the Lost and Found" but the songs are terrible and some of them sound like they were written out of his range. Remember when "Back Into Hell" was starting to come together, Meat’s vocals probably sounded better than they ever did. Just listen to the bootlegs from the "Lost Boys and Golden Girls" tour. He sounds awesome, better than he does on "Back Into Hell", IMO. In my opinion, and I absolutely acknowledge that it is my opinion, there was nothing wrong with Meat's voice in the studio just that Jim wanted his songs to sound a particular way. From the impression that I get, the experience making "Bat 2" had a lot to do with why Meat apparently wasn’t excited about working in the studio with Jim on "Bat 3". > > Jim wrote the songs and started to produce the album but > > quit when he couldn't get any good vocal tracks out of > > Meat. > > Apparently he had the same problem with Meat's vocal > tracks while they were producing Bat 2. But he stuck with > the project and used different studio tricks (like taking > different bits from different takes and making up a "good > vocal track"). He must have been in a different place when > he quit the Dead Ringer project. By the time they started > work on Bat 2, he must have really wanted to put out a hit > record because he overcame the vocal-hurdle (although > perhaps Meat's voice was in even worse shape during the > making of Dead Ringer - Meat said something on one of the > documentaries about a psychosematic problem which made him > unable to sing). Whatever the case, I do feel that Meat > owes his best vocal Grammy for Anything For Love to Jim > and the brilliant way he produced in the studio. I'm not > sure about the States but Anything For Love was the best > selling UK single in 1993 and Bat 2 was the best selling > UK album of the same year. Who would have thought that Jim > had to work so hard to get the vocals right? | |
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